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Date: July 27, 1998
Nine Members Join Princeton Board of Trustees
Princeton, N.J. -- Eight Princeton alumni and one parent of three alumni will join the Princeton University Board of Trustees on September 18. They are the Rt. Rev. Frederick H. Borsch, Los Angeles, Calif.; Janet M. Clarke, Boca Raton, Fla.; Donald G. Fisher, San Francisco, Calif.; Irvine O. Hockaday Jr., Shawnee Mission, Kan.; Peter B. Lewis, Beachwood, Ohio; Dr. Nancy J. Newman, Atlanta, Ga.; Richard O. Scribner, Chappaqua, N.Y.; Jeffrey S. Siegel, Princeton, N.J.; and John O. Wynne, Virginia Beach, Va.
Clarke, Newman, and Wynne have been named charter trustees and will serve 10-year terms, ending in 2008. Fisher, Lewis, and Scribner have been named term trustees and will serve for four years, until 2002. Borsch, Hockaday and Siegel are alumni trustees who will serve four year terms; Borsch and Hockaday were elected in a vote of Princeton alumni, while Siegel, a June graduate, was elected this year’s Young Alumni Trustee.
The Rt. Rev. Frederick H. Borsch
Borsch, a member of the Class of 1957, was consecrated bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles in June 1998. From the downtown Cathedral Center, he serves 150 congregations in six counties of southern California. The diocese also supports neighborhood youth groups, a home for abused children, a hospital and 40 schools. Borsch chairs the Advisory Board of Trinity Press International and the Theology Committee of the Episcopal House of Bishops and serves on the Board of Advisors for the UCLA School of Public and Social Research.
Before becoming bishop, Borsch taught at colleges in England and seminaries in the United States. He spent eight years at Princeton as Dean of the Chapel, teaching in the Department of Religion. An English major as a Princeton undergraduate, Borsch received an M.A. from Oxford and a Ph.D. from the University of Birmingham. He was ordained in 1960.
Janet M. Clarke
Clarke joined Citibank in 1997 as managing director in its global consumer business, where she is responsible for global database marketing. In this position, Clarke is building a new organization which develops and executes a global database strategy, utilizing internal and external technical resources as well as strategic alliances. This initiative aims to strengthen the Citibank brand name in lifelong relationships with customers in 55 countries.
Prior to joining Citibank, Clarke spent 18 years with R.R. Donnelly and Sons. She is also a director of Cox Communications and is a co-chair for Princeton University’s current five-year capital campaign. She also serves on the advisory board to the university’s Center for Computing and Information Technology. A native of Springfield, Mass., Clarke received a degree in architecture from Princeton in 1976. She completed the Advanced Management Program at the Harvard School of Business in 1992.
Donald G. Fisher
Fisher is the founder, chairman and past CEO of The Gap, Inc., located in San Francisco. Prior to starting The Gap in 1969, Fisher ran the Fisher Property Investment Company, a general contracting, real estate management and syndication concern. In 1996, he was named Retailer of the Year by the National Retail Federation. Fisher is also a director of the Charles Schwab Corporation and AirTouch Communications. He has served on the advisory council to the U.S. Trade Representative since the Reagan Administration, and last year President Clinton named him to the Board of Directors of the Presidio Trust. Fisher is also an advisor to the business schools at Stanford and the University of California.
He has an extensive record of service to Princeton and to the community, having served on boards of The Boys and Girls Clubs of America, the United Way of the Bay Area, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, among others. Fisher, who received his bachelor’s degree from the University of California in 1950, is an honorary member of the Class of 1976. His three children are all Princeton graduates, and he and his wife, Doris, chaired the Princeton Parents Fund. He previously served as a term trustee from 1993 to 1997.
Irvine O. Hockaday Jr.
Hockaday is president and CEO of Hallmark Cards, Inc., the world’s largest publisher of greeting cards and related products. He joined the company in 1983 after serving for 12 years as president of Kansas City Southern Industries, Inc. He had been a member of the Hallmark board of directors since 1978. During Hockaday’s tenure, Hallmark has been commended as one of the nation’s best employers, having been honored by Working Mother magazine and named the 1995 recipient of the Lawrence A. Wein Prize in Social Responsibility, offered by Columbia University.
Hockaday is a trustee of the Aspen Institute, the Hall Family Foundations and is a director of Ford Motor Company, Dow Jones, Sprint and UtiliCorp Limited. He holds numerous community posts, having served as chairman of the Civic Council of Greater Kansas City. He is a member of the Princeton Class of 1958 and graduated from the University of Michigan Law School in 1961.
Peter B. Lewis
Lewis is chairman, president and CEO of The Progressive Corporation, the nation’s six-largest auto insurance carrier with annual sales of $3.6 billion. Progressive is the result of Lewis’
1965 leveraged buyout of a small Cleveland insurance company, with revenues of just $6 million, that dealt with drivers who had difficulty obtaining insurance. Lewis’ approach at Progressive has been to reduce the trauma and cost of accidents with rapid, hassle-free response. Progressive has been praised by Fortune, Business Week, USA Today and The New York Times and has been the subject of numerous Harvard Business School case studies.
Progressive collects art to create a more stimulating environment for its employees; its art collection has been ranked among the best in the nation. Lewis has a personal collection as well and is a major patron of the arts community; he has received numerous awards for his efforts. Lewis is a trustee at the Solomon M. Guggenheim Museum, the Cleveland Museum of the Arts, and The Aspen Institute. He donated $1 million for a contemporary art gallery at the Art Museum at Princeton University. Lewis graduated from Princeton in 1955.
Dr. Nancy J. Newman
Newman is a neuro-ophthalmologist at the Emory University School of Medicine, holding several appointments at the medical school as well as a lectureship in ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School, where she earned her medical degree before receiving postdoctoral training at Massachusetts General Hospital. Newman is also the director of the Neuro-Ophthalmology Unit at the Emory Eye Center. In 1997, she was named the Cyrus H. Stoner Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at Emory. She has received many awards for her teaching and scholarship and serves on numerous professional committees and editorial boards. Newman also serves on major committees at Emory, including search committees for the Chair of Medicine and for the Provost of the University. Her current research focuses on Parkinson’s Disease and its treatment.
At Princeton, however, Newman majored in art and archaeology; when she graduated in 1978, she received the department’s prize for best thesis. Newman also received Princeton’s M. Taylor Pyne Prize, the highest undergraduate honor.
Richard O. Scribner
Scribner is the managing director, and co-chief compliance officer, at Salomon Smith Barney. Before joining the investment company’s predecessor, Smith Barney, in 1988, Scribner spent eight years as senior vice president for legal and regulatory affairs at the American Stock Exchange. He was senior vice president and general counsel to the Securities Industry Association from 1968 to 1980. He is a frequent lecturer on legal and securities industry topics.
A 1958 graduate of Princeton, Scribner received his LL.B. from Columbia in 1963 and practiced law for several years. He has been an active Princeton alumnus for many years, having served on the executive committee of the Alumni Council from 1981 to 1989, the last three years as chair. He has been chair of the National Annual Giving Committee since 1995. Scribner also holds leadership positions with Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic and with Phillips Exeter Academy, also an alma mater.
Jeffrey S. Siegel
Siegel is the 1998 Young Alumni Trustee, having been elected by members of the Classes of 1996, 1997, 1998, and 1999. A native of Staten Island, N.Y., Siegel was a major in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. He was active in student government during his four years at Princeton, serving as president of the Undergraduate Student Government for 1997. He also served as a student representative to the Priorities Committee, which sets the university budget, for 1995-96. Siegel was an advocate for smaller tuition increases and for expanding financial aid programs for lower- and middle-income students, both of which occurred during his time at Princeton.
An active Democrat, Siegel is currently the deputy finance director for Rush Holt, the Democratic nominee for Congress in New Jersey’s 12th Congressional District, which includes Princeton. Siegel served as president of the Princeton College Democrats, was a voting member of the Princeton Community Democratic Organization, and an intern with the New Jersey Democratic State Committee. He also worked with the White House advance team for New Jersey presidential visits.
John O. Wynne
Known to Princetonians as "Dubby" Wynne, the president and CEO of Landmark Communications, Inc., runs a corporation with interests in newspapers, broadcasting, cable programming, electronic publishing and specialty publications. Landmark owns The Weather Channel, based in Atlanta; and El Canal Del Tiempo, a Spanish-language weather channel based in Miami. Wynne is a director of the National Cable Television Association and a former chair of its national Satellite Network Committee. He is also co-chair of the Hampton Roads Partnership, a public-private group that seeks to promote economic development in the five-county Hampton Roads region of Virginia.
Wynne holds leadership positions with a number of groups dedicated to promoting education, including the Tidewater Scholarship Foundation, which assists low-income high school students who want to attend college. At Princeton, Wynne is co-chair of Leadership Gifts for the university’s current capital campaign. A member of the Class of 1967, he received a law degree from the University of Virginia in 1971.